Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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